This year again the Alexandre Trauner ART/Film Festival was a great succsess. The closing ceremony was held on the 19^th of October, Saturday, in the Szolnok Gallery where the awards were given out in the presence of the film and media industry, Hungarian and international filmmakers and town officials.

The Czech period piece Golden Sting took home the award for best set design, while the Austrian-German drama, The Tobacconist and the Hungarian thriller, Valan were awarded with a shared 2^nd prize.  Besides the European Feature Film section – honouring the festival’s tradition - the jury selected winners in two more prestigious categories: Visualized Science and Young Directors: Short Feature and Animation.

This year Szolnok Film Festivals celebrated its 50^th anniversary. Throughout the 5 days of varied and rich programs visitors could attend 150 screenings. In the European Feature Film section 10 movies, whereas in the Visualized Science and Young Directors: Short Feature and Animation categories 92 films were in competition.

On the closing ceremony the festival organizers were celebrating two outstanding artists, Líviusz Gyulai and Marcell Jankovics, by giving them lifetime achievement awards for their contribution to Hungarian films and art. Marcell Jankovic is well known as an animation director, as well as illustrator and cultural historian, his books cover a widespread range of interests. The lifetime achievement award wasn’t only for the animation filmmaker, but the polyhistor himself. Líviusz Gyulai’s work is marked by a unique style, magisteral graphical knowledge and joyful, intelligent wit. The award honours a continuous and exeptionally lineal career.

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